Am about purchase MS Office 2011 Is anyone running it successfully on Lion?

I'm likely buying the home/student version. Is anyone having success with it?

I had Office 2004. Did not do a clean install of Lion but upgraded from Snow Leopard. Found out immediately that I had to go with Office 2011. Installed it afterwards. This was with an iMac, by the way. Later, with the MBP, installed Office 2011 first and then upgraded. Went much smoother.

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Microsoft Office 2011 - Has anyone downloaded this and is it useful? More importantly I cannot find it in the App Store.

Microsoft Office 2011 - Has anyone downloaded this and is it useful? More importantly I cannot find it in the App Store.

Hello,
There are some Microsoft product like Windows Phone 7 Connector on the Mac App Store but for the moment Office is not there.
In an interview last year Microsoft’s Amanda Lefebvre told Mobilized : “It’s something we are looking at”.
http://allthingsd.com/20110127/microsoft-considering-whether-to-bring-office-to- apples-mac-app-store/
If you have applications like iWork or the free OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) you will be able to read files created by Microsoft Office.

I purchased microsoft office 2011. I have downloaded and installed the software but at no time was I prompted to enter my product key. As a result I am unable to use the software. Please help me activate the software. Thanks

I purchased downloaded and installed microsoft office 2011 onto my iMac. At no time was I prompted to enter the product key so I am unable to activate the software. Can anyone tell me what to do in order to activate the software?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Where did you download Office for Mac? If you downloaded it from Microsoft, read > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2391941/en-us

How do I get MS Office 2011 to install from DVD on Mountain Lion?

I just did a clean install of OS X Mountain Lion from a prepared bootable SD-Card on a new partition of my harddrive and wanted to install Microsoft Office 2011 using the original disc. But after double clicking the installer icon nothing happened besides the rainbow colored spinner showing up and disappearing shortly after and my optical drive making some noise. Activity Monitor indicated that the process of the Installer application doesn't react so I had to force quit it. I tried it multiple times to install MS Office this way using the disc but the problem persisted, also after a reboot.
So far my system is still in a pretty fresh state since I installed hardly any separate apps yet and the most intrusive one of them is probably merely Sophos. OS X's Installer app worked the way it should when I was installing iLife the day before using the Applications Install DVD that came with my Mac.
When I installed Office 2011 the first time, presumably one year ago on another partition on the same Mac which was running OS 10.6, everything worked fine and the same is true for the time when I upgraded to OS 10.7 (although I didn't install Office again, I just kept everything on the same partition).
So is there anyone out there who experienced similiar problems and can please help solve this problem?

Well, that depends on what you mean when you say "verified". But as I wrote in the first post I was able to install iLife from disc on Mountain Lion without much ado. And just now I tested a DVD with some pictures on it and the disc drive would read and display all photos in Preview.
And given the facts that I rarely use my optical drive at all and that my machine is only little more than a year old, a drive failure seems quite unlikely. But thanks for your response anyway!

Problems with Office 2011 for mac after upgrading to Mountain Lion

Office 2011 for mac worked fine with Lion on my MacBook Air. I had been having some problems with my computer freezing and crashing, so the folks at the Genius Bar wiped my computer clean and installed Mountain Lion for me.
I have full backups (Time Machine) from before the wipe on my external hard drive, but I was told not to restore from the backup, that I should drag and drop files instead. I was also told to re-install any program for which I had the disk. I reinstalled Office 2011 via the disk.
Two major problems followed:
1.     I lost all my old emails (I use Mail). Even rebuilding the library or trying to restore them from Time Machine don't get them back.
2.     Word and Excel don't seem to recognize me anymore. I can pull up and modify an old document or workbook, but I cannot "save" my changes. I have to hit "save as." That's a pain, but there's a worse problem.
I have no trouble saving these "save as" versions to my desktop or to my Documents file. But I cannot save them anywhere else — even to the folder where I found the original document. I get a message that I don't have the necessary permissions to access or modify the folders. I'm asked to authenticate, and I do, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
I tried Get Info on the workbooks and documents, and I'm clearly granted Read and Write permission.
I've done a permissions repair via Disk Utility. There were some things to repair, but it didn't solve my problem.
I know I can move all documents to an external hard drive and then recreate all the folders, saving all the documents and workbooks "as" but it seems a huge amount of work. Can anybody suggest an easier route or how to get my email history?

You may need to rebuild permissions on your user account. To do this,boot to your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys while booting) and open Terminal from the Utilities menu. In Terminal, type: 'resetpassword' (without the 's) and select the admin user. You are not going to reset your password. Click on the icon for your Macs hard drive at the top. From the drop down below it select the user account which is having issues. At the bottom of the window, you'll see an area labeled Restore Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Click the reset button there. The process takes a few minutes. When complete, restart.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

How do I sync Office 2011 for Mac with Contacts under Mountain Lion?

How do I sync Office 2011 for Mac (Outlook) contacts with Contacts under Mountain Lion (or iOS6)? Outlook doesn't seem to have moved on from iSync, and meddling seems to produce unpredictable results.

You can't. Microsoft have not added support for the industry standard sync protocols iCloud uses.
See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2648915

Will my Microsoft office 2011 work when I upgrade to Mountain lion?

I want to upgrade my Macbook Pro snow leopard (10.6.8) to Mountain Lion, but I am unsure if my Microsoft Office 2011 will work when i upgrade. I do not want to end up buying it again.

Tested, works fine.

I recently erred and purchased MS Office 2011 Home

Foolishly, I didn't realize that MS Office Mac 2011 Home & Student didn't come with Outlook. What are the best alternatives? Looks like to acquire Outlook it's actually cheaper just to buy the Mac business version as it will be comparable in price, and will have fewer issues. Will other options be compatible with Excel and Word files? Thank you.

If you want/prefer Outlook, it actually is on the Home/Student disk. See the top item on this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/faq/product-upgrade
Basically, you pay the difference between the Home and Business versions and you get an unlock code to install Outlook.

Unable to save or open files in Excel from Office 2011 on my Mac Air with Mountain Lion?

Excel 2011 no longer saves or opens files?

I found this page under Microsoft's web area listing known issues with Excel 2011 on the Mac.
One is entitled "You cannot save a file that includes a hyperlink". That and/or other references on this page might be helpful.
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/word/item/4ba243ae-1afa-4283-ba6a -d2a020dcc07a

MS Office 2011 won't install under Mountain Lion

Today I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion. However, my MS Office 2011 refused to run, didn't even start so I couldn't check for updates manually. I had it set to check for updates automatically by the way.
So I uninstalled MS Office and then reinstalled from the installation disk. But my iMac won't install it; it starts up the installation most of the times (although it sometimes spits out the disk without even trying) but after several tries it keeps telling me that the installation failed because there is no software to install.
So frustrating!
How can I install it anyway? I really need it since all my documents are MS Office.

G@dgetgirl wrote:
Thanks Eric, but I'd already found that procedure and this is exactly what I did. Didn't work, alas. Or rather, it worked alright since I've got no traces of MS OFfice on my Mac anymore. But it still won't install from the installation disk. Below is the error message, in Dutch. It says the installation failed due to an error in the installation program and that I should contact Microsoft.
Pfff.
Everything worked fine under Lion. Should I give up on Mountain Lion and revert back to Lion?
What did Microsoft say?

Impact on Microsoft Office 2011?

Iʻm considering an upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion. However, some review comments on the store website indicated problems with Office 2011 files after the upgrade to Mountain Lion. Has this problem been resolved?

Not sure that it ever really existed frankly, Office 2011 is compatible with Mountain Lion but, it is still an unstable Microsoft product, it usually crashes in one way or another, as it does on Lion, Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Vista, and so on.
Office 2011 is not compatible with iCloud so if you use iCloud don't buy Office.
PS
Most of that applies mainly to Outlook, Word is a close runner up, Excel usually works just fine.

Does anyone knows how to change Microsoft Office 2011 language default from Italian to English ???

Does anyone knows how to change Microsoft Office 2011 language default from Italian to English ???

Are you talking about spellcheck or the language of menus and dialogues and menus?
In general, the best place to search/ask about MS product issues is the forums they run for that:
ttp://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword

We purchased Microsoft Office Professional 2010 (3 Activations) in Dec of 2011.

We purchased Microsoft Office Professional 2010 (3 Activations) in Dec of 2011. We only activated one License, on my wife’s computer, I was using Microsoft Office Professional XP on my computer at the time and did not need to install one of the Microsoft
Office Professional 2010 (3 Activations).
I have tried to use the download link that was sent from the original purchase in 2011;
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download the Microsoft Office Professional 2010 (3 Activations) from this site.
Is it still possible to download the Microsoft Office Professional 2010 (3 Activations) ?
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I'm sure you still keep the product key, follow the process to enter the key, you should be able to download then.
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My imac was running snow leopard and was upgraded to Mt. Lion. My Microsoft Office for Mac now will not open. SO since my Office was 2004, I just purchased Office for Mac 2011. Do I delete the icons before loading Office 2011 OR after I load 2011?

Upgraded my Imac to Mt. Lion and now the Microsoft Office icons will not open WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, or ENTOURAGE. I just pruchased on Ebay
OFFICE 2011 since my old version was 2004. DO I REMOVE THE OLD ICONS BEFORE LOADING OFFICE 2011 RO AFTER I LOAD IT???
THANKS, DR PEPPERMINT

Office 2011 will install in a separate folder. But do not install Office 2011 until you remove Office 2004. It comes with its own uninstalled located in the MS Office folder. Only use the uninstaller to get rid of it. Then install Office 2011.
Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work in Lion/Mountain Lion
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work in Lion/Mountain Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

Trying to install MS Office 2011 for Mac SP 2 on my Macbook Air (Lion 10.7.3). I have to close Microsoft Database Daemon and SyncServicesAgent but can not see how to do so. I have closed all applications. Can anyone help? Many thanks

Trying to install MS Office 2011 for Mac SP 2 (14.2.0) on my Macbook Air (Lion 10.7.3). I have to close Microsoft Database Daemon and SyncServicesAgent but can not see how to do so. I have closed all applications. Can anyone help? Many thanks

Thanks Kurt! I had tried all that and had tried closing both programmes from the application monitor, but SyncServices Agent refused to close. I tried closing Launchd which is their mother application, but that just caused the screen go go blank. In the end the two programmes let themselves be closed next time I tried the installation process so all was well. Thanks for your help!

Am about purchase MS Office 2011 Is anyone running it successfully on Lion?

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